Costume Drama

In her large embroidered portraits of young male and female subjects, Tisnacombines patterning and decorating patch works, sewing together newspaper reports of refugees and police brutality with fabrics from clothes she wore as a child. Inspired by Japanese war kimonos Tisna applies an ancient craft technique, traditionally handed from mother to daughter, to initiate a dialogue about inheritance and creativity in response to media representations of violence.Using snap shots of family life as her source material, alongside imagery from historic films/- documentation, her subjects, the quietly strong but vulnerable young sitters are a metaphor for - and explore the theme of innocence. They seem to be disengaged from judgement and criticism, which enables anexamination of the principles of equanimity, humility and acceptance that is installed in all of us.